The IF OR function in Google Sheets combines the functionality of the IF and OR functions to create an IF OR statement that is fulfilled even if only one of two or more conditions are met. You can use numeric and string conditions and even combine them together as IF OR conditions to help you identify the entries that you need.
The IF OR formula syntax is
=IF(OR(condition1, condition2, …), value_if_true, value_if_false)
Where
condition1 and condition2 are the conditions to fulfill, but you can set more than two conditions
value_if_true is the value displayed if one of the conditions are met
value_if_false is the value displayed if none of the conditions are met
For this example, we identify the following conditions and values to display:
condition1: 2020 census greater than 500,000
condition2: 2020 population density greater than 5,000
Value_if_true: “very high density”
Value_if_false: “high density”
As condition1 relies on data stored in column C and condition2 relies on data stored in column E, we get the following conditions (assuming row 2):
condition1: C2 > 500000
condition2: E2 > 5000
For our example, the function is
=if(or(C2>500000,E2<5000),"very high density","high density")
You can extend IF OR down the column, giving you the following output:
For this example, we identify three conditions and values to display:
condition1: city is from New York
condition2: city is from California
condition3: city is from Texas
Value_if_true: “very high population”
Value_if_false: “high population”
As these three conditions rely on data from column B, we get the following conditions:
condition1: B2 = “New York”
condition2: B2 = “California”
condition3: B2 = “Texas”
The strings should be enclosed in double quotes.
The function is
=if(or(B2="New York",B2="California",B2="Texas"),"very high population","high population")
You can extend IF OR down the column, giving you the following output:
For this example, we identify the following conditions and values to display:
condition1: city is from California
condition2: population is more than 200,000
Value_if_true: “Major city or from CA"
Value_if_false: "Not major city or not from CA”
As condition1 relies on data stored in column B and condition2 relies on data stored in column C, we get the following conditions (assuming row 2):
condition1: B2 = “California”
condition1: C2 > 200000
The strings should be enclosed in double quotes.
The function is
=if(or(B2="California",C2>200000),"Major city or from CA","Not major city or not from CA")
You can extend IF OR down the column, giving you the following output:
There is ideally no limit in the number of conditions you can add, but the limits come from the conditional logic you want to implement. This puts the limit to 2-3 conditions.
No. However, you can reference other cells when defining conditions.
IF THEN: Allows you tor write statements that use IF X Then Y Logic
IF AND: Combines the functionality of the IF and AND functions
IF Else: Set conditions that give an output depending on whether a given condition is fulfilled or not
Multiple IF Statements: How to chain multiple statements together.
IF Contains: Returns cells that contain a particular text.
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